think-scrutinize
Good-faith adversarial scrutiny of an idea or plan. Spawns critical skeptics across relevant lenses, pairs them with an advocate defending the idea, and synthesizes the exchange into a report. Produces feedback only — no code, no tickets, no artifacts.
npx skills add majiayu000/claude-skill-registry --skill think-scrutinize --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Think-Scrutinize - Devil's Advocate for Ideas Scrutinizes an idea or plan to identify its faults before implementation. Uses the same adversarial pattern as `/think-deliberate`, but pointed inward at a single idea instead of outward across competing options: skeptics critique, an advocate defends, skeptics counter-rebut, orchestrator synthesizes. **This skill produces no tangible artifacts.** It is a consultant, not an implementer. No code, no tickets, no commits. The output is a structured report of findings that survived adversarial testing. ## Roles **Judge (you, running this skill):** - Capture the idea in a written brief - Choose appropriate critical lenses - Spawn skeptics and the advocate - Synthesize the exchange into the final report **Skeptics:** Each receives a specific lens (technical, economic, operational, etc.) and critiques the idea in good faith through that lens. **Advocate:** Defends the idea against the consolidated critique — concedes genuine faults, refutes weak ones. ## Workflow ### 1. Receive the Idea The idea may arrive as: - **Conversation context** — summarize it back to the user, confirm accuracy - **A document** — read the file (design doc, ticket, pl
- Roles
- Workflow
- 1. Receive the Idea
- 2. Fact-Finding
- 3. Choose Critical Lenses
- 4. Spawn Skeptics (Parallel)
- 5. Consolidate Critiques
- 6. Spawn Advocate
- 7. Counter-Rebuttal (Parallel)
- 8. Synthesize and Report
- 9. No Iteration
- Constraints
- When to Use
- Philosophy
What does the think-scrutinize skill do?
Good-faith adversarial scrutiny of an idea or plan. Spawns critical skeptics across relevant lenses, pairs them with an advocate defending the idea, and synthesizes the exchange into a report. Produces feedback only — no code, no tickets, no artifacts.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add majiayu000/claude-skill-registry --skill think-scrutinize --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From majiayu000/claude-skill-registry, a repository with 534 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.